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The Glorious Revolution of 1688, a rebellion overthrowing King James II, was nominally bloodless (in England at least), but the threat of violence was present, since William and Mary landed in Devon with a Dutch army. On the other hand a riot is generally an unorganised affair, it is a sub-war form of collective violence, although the differences in the particular may be blurred at the edges. Interestingly, the phrase “reading the Riot Act” stems from the Riot Act of Britain, introduced in 1715 as a law to disperse groups of more than twelve people.

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